Personal Narrative Essay: The Separation Of Santa's

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“No! It wasn’t my idea either. It was my uncles. He wanted us to steal the Santa’s because he had embezzled money from the company and he wanted to make that money back for the holidays, and he figured the best way to do that would be to kidnap the stores Santa’s. He hired us to do all the dirty work for him, so no one would suspect that it was him. Also, he made us kidnap our store’s Santa too so that it would seem suspicious that we had a Santa when none of the other stores did. See, I had always wanted to be the Santa at his store, but he always said no, so when he offered this job to me and said that I could be his stores Santa, I couldn’t refuse. So, me and Dylan kidnapped all of the Santa’s and then brought them here. That’s what happened,

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